xorg intel driver in rawhide

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Thu Mar 20 20:19:45 UTC 2008


On Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:11 pm Trond Danielsen wrote:
> 2008/3/20, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>:
> > [...]
> >
> >  It also seems some of the backlight stuff is a bit weird. It doesn't
> >  seem to remember the settings any more. The increase doesn't work
> >  until you hit decrease (which initially increases the brightness) and
> >  then its OK.
>
> I am also seeing this. This problem was not present in F8, but now the
> backlight is turned of when gdm start up.

Hm, F8 had 2.1.1 which defaulted to using the native backlight control regs 
for most people.  We switched to using the legacy ones for 2.2.0 because we 
were getting bug reports from people whose backlight controls didn't work at 
all, but maybe we have to revisit that decision...

Jesse




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